Thread: How to Power a Rotating Turret
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Re: How to Power a Rotating Turret
Is your turret going more than 360 degrees in rotation?
We figured on my team for simplicity sake and since we will never have to shoot behind us into our own trailer, we only will be rotating our turret 270 degrees. Because of this, we're using belting, and we're just permanently attatching the belt to a part of the turret, and spinning it with a motor. Since the fastened part of the belting will never come away from the round turret, we'll be good. Just a suggestion if you dont want 360 degrees.